php - MassAssignmentException in Laravel

Question

I am a Laravel newbie. I want to seed my database. When I run the seed command I get an exception

  [IlluminateDatabaseEloquentMassAssignmentException]
  username



db:seed [--class[="..."]] [--database[="..."]]

What am I doing wrong. The command I use is:

php artisan db:seed --class="UsersTableSeeder"

My seed class is as follows:

class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder {
    public function run()
    {
            User::truncate();
            User::create([
                'username' => 'PaulSheer',
                'email' => 'psheer@rute.co.za',
                'password' => '45678'
            ]);

            User::create([
                'username' => 'Stevo',
                'email' => 'steve@rute.co.za',
                'password' => '45678'
            ]);
    }
}

Answer 1

Read this section of Laravel doc : http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#mass-assignment

Laravel provides by default a protection against mass assignment security issues. That's why you have to manually define which fields could be "mass assigned" :

class User extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['username', 'email', 'password'];
}

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Warning : be careful when you allow the mass assignment of critical fields like password or role. It could lead to a security issue because users could be able to update this fields values when you don't want to.